Charities IT Association (CITA) provides charities with a free 2 hour consultation with a strategic IT volunteer “optimised for organisations turning over between £50K and £5M”. For charities registered with the Charity Commission (England and Wales) or the Scottish Charity Regulator currently (summer 2016).

JADe provides generic and specialised IT services to a variety of non-profits, such as Action Aid, Global Witness, Ramblers Association. Have also created a ‘contacts-centric’ database system for charities, C2.

Roger Jones/RJ Partners has worked in arts and voluntary sectors as an IT consultant and trainer for 7 years. Includes customising Access databases.

Seeds for Change Linux advice/consultancy – free for social and environmental campaigns groups.

Training and Consultancy

Happy Computers Charity discount, usually extended to all voluntary orgs – approx. 40% off. Programme of courses on popular software and systems, also do customised and onsite by arrangement. Online (web based) training available too. Happy Computers is the first training company to achieve the Gold Standard of the Institute of IT Training, meaning that 100% of trainers are accredited. Cityside House, 40 Adler Street, London, E1 1EE, phone 020 7375 7300, email: happy@happy.co.uk

3tc Aiming to make ICT available to all third sector organisations in Merseyside through training and services. A partnership of voluntary, public and private sector companies. Phone 0151 285 4000.

Charity IT Association – see above for tech surgeries and consultancy.

Computercraft – see above.

IT 4 Communities now provides its consultancy as part of CITA (summer 2016) – volunteering brokering service enabling IT professionals to provide technical help/advice to charities and community groups.

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